but the AA Readme recommendation to ensure that app/admin/dashboards.rb looked like the default turned out to be a red-herring.

I noticed that a fresh ‘rails generate active_admin:install’ wanted to drop a new app/admin/dashboard.rb file. This new config file had all the jazzy new configuration syntax, so after copying over my section configs from the dashboards.rb to dashboard.rb, renaming ‘section’ to ‘panel’, and removing the dashboards.rb file, I fired up my specs again. My newly styled dashboard looked great but there was still a problem: seems that my root ‘/’ path was no longer pointing at a valid controller. Say huh?

I could see in ‘rake routes’ that I had two routes for ‘/’ – one from my manual route and a mystery one that looked like the commented out root_to configuration in config/initializers/active_admin.rb. Turns out some other folks had just encountered this: https://github.com/gregbell/active_admin/issues/2049

Following the advice there to move my manual root route up above ActiveAdmin in routes.rb did indeed get me back in shape. Looking forward to AA 0.6.1…